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1857
Burpee, Thomas F. (1837 - 1864)
Diary for 1857
Includes brief accounts of his days as well as some accounting. writes "Nothing New" several times.
GLC02744.379
1858
Diary for 1858
Mainly used as an accounting book but there are also brief descriptions of his days mixed in.
GLC02744.380
1859
Diary for 1859
Mainly used as an account book with a few diary entries
GLC02744.381
1862
Diary for 1862
Records troop movements in several entries, also used as an account book.
GLC02744.382
1863
Diary for 1863
Records troop movements in several entries, also used as an account book. Many blank pages.
GLC02744.383
1864
Diary for 1864
Final year. Records troop movements until June 11th when his mother takes over after his death. Provides details of funeral. Rest is blank.
GLC02744.384
1 January 1865-18 June 1865
Phoenix, John W. (fl. 1864-1865)
Diary of John W. Phoenix
Early entries mostly detail the weather, regimental duties, and camp life at Little Rock, Arkansas. On 21 January he indicates that the regiment has received marching orders but he is to remain at camp. This marching brigade came back on 4 February...
GLC03956.02
Tucker, John S.
[Diary of John S. Tucker, D company, 5th regiment, Alabama, infantry]
Tucker's 1862 autograph manuscript diary contains his account of day-to-day life in D company and discussions of battles such as Seven Pines, Williamsburg, Mechanicsville, and the Seven Days battles. Also mentions the evacuation of Yorktown.
GLC00653.19.01
1865
Emerick, J. H. (fl. 1861-1865)
Pocket diary
14 prefatory and almanac pages + 170 diary pages + 32 memoranda and account pages. NB. Missing: pages for December 15 -31. No entries: August 28 - September 1; September 3 - 17; September 24 - October 13; October 16 - November 11; November 15 -...
GLC06738.05
Gottshall, Samuel G. (1841-1902)
[Diary of Samuel G. Gottshall]
Leather bound autograph manuscript signed. Gottshall returns to the Army after being wounded in the arm by a cannonball. Throughout the early months Gottshall sees little action and he discusses his recovery and soldiering in the winter. In [13-15...
GLC04564.04
Dunham, W. H. (fl. 1864)
[Diary of soldier W. H. Dunham, with drawings]
Diary of W. H. Dunham, a soldier in Company D, 20th Ohio, during the Atlanta campaign. Entries cover period 1 April - 16 September 1864, and document Sherman's March to Atlanta and the Battles of Atlanta and Jonesborough. In the first part of the...
GLC03351
1863-1864
Starr, George H. (fl. 1863-1865)
[Diary of George H. Starr]
Captured at Gettysburg in July of 1863, George H. Starr of company D in the 104th regiment of the New York Infantry made a number of escape attempts from Confederate prisons, before succeeding in October of 1864. Much of the diary is empty, with...
GLC02748.01
1 January 1865-13 May 1865
Whipple, Milton (fl. 1865)
Diary of Milton Whipple
Early entries are brief and mostly record staff changes, troop movements, drills, and the weather but the entries lengthen as Whipple details the Appomattox campaign and the last few weeks leading up to General Robert E. Lee's surrender. On 24...
GLC04561
1 January 1864-31 December 1864
Fuller, Franklin W. (fl. 1861-1865)
[Diary of Franklin W. Fuller]
January: Writes of the cold weather. Perry received his discharge papers. The weather ranges from pleasant to rainy and cold. Has played in parades.
February: Describes the weather and notes that they were ordered to be ready to march with eight...
GLC03523.42.70
Leather bound autograph manuscript signed. Describes activity at Fort Donelson (the Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from 11 February to 16 February 1862), Yorktown (Siege of Yorktown took place from 5 April to 4 May 1862, as part of the Peninsula...
GLC04564.03
08 August 1943 - 09 April 1945
King, Charles Peter
[Diary of Charles P. King]
"Hands Off King, C. P. MM 3/c" written on cover. 46 written pages. Inside cover reads "Charles P King MM 3/c M. Div. USS InTrepid c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco Calif". Entries describe King's time on the USS Intrepid, including the movement of...
GLC09554.02
Cook, Henry (fl. 1862-1864)
1864 Diary
In this diary, dated from January through November, 1864, Henry Cook documents life in the US Signal Corps. Stationed near New Bern, NC, Cook writes of matters of daily life--meals, rations, guard duty, trips to town, construction projects--and of...
GLC03958.03
1918/06/03 - 1918/10/20
Shepp, William
Untitled
GLC06888.02
1918/12/08 - 1919/04/12
GLC06888.03
1919/04/20 - 1919/08/05
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GLC06888.04
1917-1919
WWI diaries of soldiers in Company A, 7th Engineers, with vivid battle details
The dates of the individual volumes are as follows: I. 3 June 1917-2 June 1918; II. 3 June-20 October 1918; III. 8 December 1918-12 April 1919; IV. ca. 20 April-5 August 1919.
Bound manuscripts housed in Primary: Range 3B, Shelf 1-2.
GLC06888
1784
Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel (1746-1807)
[Diary of a journey over the Alleghenies to the Ohio River]
Writes this journal while travelling from Pennsylvania to Ohio after obtaining appointment by the Assembly of Virginia to locate lands intended for Virginia officers who served in the Continental Army.
GLC04438
14 August 1941 - 16 December 1941
Askin, Thomas Barwiss Hagstog, Jr. (fl. 1938-1958)
USS Memphis journal: Memorys and Incidents of My Last 60(?) Days in the United States Navy
Diary of Quartermaster Second Class Thomas Barwiss Hagstog Askin, Jr. containing a countdown of days until his relief day. Askin's diary describes day-to-day experiences aboard the USS Memphis. Includes entries regarding correspondence, entertainment...
GLC09555.01
1917/06/03-1918/11/05
William Shepp Diary 1917-1918
3 June 1917 - 2 June 1918. Begins with Shepp's enlistment on 5 June 1917. Mentions daily activities, such as calisthenics, army drills, physical examinations and vaccinations, attendance at church services, Bible study, and French class, and...
GLC06888.01
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